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Missing Teeth? Know Your Options

Modern Dentistry Can Replace Missing Teeth When you have one or more missing teeth, you may experience difficulty eating, chewing, or even speaking properly. And (if you're missing one of the front teeth), it can detract from your appearance as well, affecting your confidence and self-esteem! Instead, choose one of the options made available by modern dentistry. What Are My Options? Dental Bridge - A dental bridge is one of the most common options to replace a single missing tooth. And, the method has [...]

By |2022-01-11T08:00:20-08:00January 11, 2022|Restorative Dentistry|
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Dental Implants: Their Structure And What’s Involved

About Dental Implants Dental implants are the strongest and most permanent solution for missing or failing teeth. When you choose to enhance your smile with dental implants, it's a life-changing event! We often take our teeth for granted, and you never really appreciate all they do until they begin to cause trouble. For speaking, eating, chewing, enjoying the food we love, even the way we feel about our appearance, it's clear that teeth are vitally important. Dental implants may seem like a complicated process. [...]

By |2021-10-19T08:00:49-07:00October 19, 2021|Restorative Dentistry|
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Know Your Teeth, Inside and Out!

Learn Your Tooth Anatomy, Shape, and Function Teeth differ in shape depending on their function & position in the mouth. On the inside, however, they all share the same basic anatomy. Parts of a Tooth Crown: the visible, chewing portion of the tooth. Root: the portion of the tooth hidden by the gums, it anchors the tooth into the jawbone. (The root makes up about two-thirds of the total length of the tooth.) Enamel: the hard outer covering of the crown of the tooth, [...]

By |2021-01-19T08:00:04-08:00January 19, 2021|Patient Education|
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Inlays, Onlays, & Crowns

What is the difference between Inlays, Onlays, and Crowns? They all strengthen and repair a damaged tooth, but generally, the type of restoration we use is determined by the extent of the damage. Inlays - Inlays are used when a cavity has grown too big to be treated with a traditional filling. Made of porcelain and milled to perfectly fit your tooth, the inlay lies within the cusps of the tooth's chewing surface. Onlay - Onlays are usually slightly larger and encompass some portion [...]

By |2019-12-17T08:00:14-08:00December 17, 2019|Restorative Dentistry|
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Crown and Bridge Treatment

Maintaining the integrity of your mouth Teeth are tough. Formed from the hardest substances in the body, they're harder even than bone. But they're not indestructible. Throughout life teeth are subject to injury—maybe it will be a blow from a hockey puck in your twenties. Or a luckless chomp on an unseen popcorn kernel in your thirties. Or a molar that's had one too many fillings in your forties. Whatever the scenario, at some point most of us will need repair for a weakened [...]

By |2018-04-24T08:00:21-07:00April 24, 2018|Restorative Dentistry|
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Gone Missing

Lose a tooth? We can help you choose the right replacement option. CROWN & BRIDGE is a collective phrase for several methods of restoring teeth. When a tooth has been damaged but is healthy enough to save, we place a crown that covers it and binds it together for strength. Crowns can be fashioned from gold or alloys, porcelain, or a combination of materials. A bridge can span a single missing tooth, or many. Conventional bridges usually involve crowns at both ends with a [...]

By |2016-12-27T00:00:30-08:00December 27, 2016|Restorative Dentistry|
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Ouch! Why am I Wincing?

A sudden, sharp pain when you bite—that's seemingly out of nowhere? Most likely, it's a cracked tooth. Even a hairline fracture in a cavity-free molar can make the most hardy of us sit up and take notice. When you're visited by this kind of bite-down pain, get to the dentist quick. Most cracks are superficial, affecting only part of the crown, but others are more significant and traverse the tooth deeply enough to expose root structure. The simpler "and more common" fractures that affect [...]

By |2016-10-18T00:00:35-07:00October 18, 2016|Restorative Dentistry|
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Learning More About Cracked Teeth

Every tooth fracture's an emergency. Unfortunately, some are too tiny to be spotted by even a trained eye. We call it Cracked Tooth Syndrome. A patient shows up with a "mouthful of pain." Something's wrong somewhere, but which tooth? It could even be a hairline crack in an apparently healthy, cavity-free molar. Most cracks tend to be superficial, involving only part of the crown and a bit of the root structure. With a fast and effective procedure, direct bonding, the small fracture can be [...]

By |2016-04-05T00:00:02-07:00April 5, 2016|Restorative Dentistry|
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Crown Considerations

When You'll Need a Crown For whatever reason, your tooth needs reinforcement and restoration. Perhaps it’s an unsightly color. Maybe you cracked it on a popcorn kernel—or it’s been weakened by several fillings. Maybe you've had root canal therapy. You're probably going to need a replacement crown on that tooth. If two or more teeth are compromised, or there’s a gap where a tooth is missing, you’ll need the crown’s cousin—the bridge. Do I have choices? Definitely. There are four categories of crowns, or [...]

By |2015-04-07T00:00:09-07:00April 7, 2015|Restorative Dentistry|
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Crowns—Dental Workhorses

Most dentists will agree that crown restorations are at the heart of general dentistry. We've all studied crowns in dental school, and some of us have done our best work replacing missing teeth and saving the rest. Research has given us the wherewithal to achieve virtually ideal restorations. They are natural looking, comfortable and stable in the moist environment of the mouth. We’re better equipped than ever to build strong, long-lasting and cosmetically superior crowns. What is a crown? A crown (or cap) is a restoration [...]

By |2015-01-20T00:00:35-08:00January 20, 2015|Restorative Dentistry|
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Tuesday: 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Thursday: 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM